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Etymology

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al-Qaeda +‎ -esque

Adjective

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al-Qaedaesque (comparative more al-Qaedaesque, superlative most al-Qaedaesque)

  1. (rare) Resembling al-Qaeda.
    • 2011, David Ball and Nicole Ball (translators), Passage of Tears, Abdourahman S. Waberi, page 39-40:
      Several local intelligence agencies are murmuring that a[sic] students, of a new kind, well versed in the cognitive sciences, are pouring in from distant lands—Sudan, Gaza, Nigeria, Peshawar or Kurdistan—to train in al-Qaedaesque fortified camps.